6600k at 4.6ghz with 1.4v is that good?

[Romano]

Hi guys I overclocked my 6600k to 4.6ghz at 1.3v

 

 

used this guide: 

but after looking at the comments, there's a lot of people saying that guide is not recommendable

 

can some one help me out?

 

The mobo is an asus maximus viii gene

 

EDIT: I forgot this guide tells you to put the voltage in auto, there's a lot of comments telling this is gonna burn the cpu please help

 

 

[YongKang]

Have you tried running stress test on your cpu like aida64 or cinebench?

[Romano]

1 minute ago, YongKang said:

Have you tried running stress test on your cpu like aida64 or cinebench?

I'm running the test on aida64 right now:

 

here's the result: 

[GDRRiley]

if you have stress tested it than yeah. mine is at 4.4GHz all cores at 1.3v using Z170m plus and a H105 with LTT  fans

[RS2007GOD]

4.6 @1.3 is ok i didnt watch the guide or anything but people use much more voltage an go 1.4+v

[RuLeZ]

it says almost 1.4V on AIDA 64, thats not that nice for long term on the Skylake, I would go back for 1.35v

[Romano]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

if you have stress tested it than yeah. mine is at 4.4GHz all cores at 1.3v using Z170m plus and a H105 with LTT  fans

for how much time do I have to run the stress test?

[RS2007GOD]

1 minute ago, RuLeZ said:

it says almost 1.4V on AIDA 64, thats not that nice for long term on the Skylake, I would go back for 1.35v

Yes theres is option to turn of auto voltage on most mobos for get the actual name but it recomends turning it off on the rog boards. This fixes the issue of using more than the set amount of voltage. 

[GDRRiley]

3 minutes ago, Romano said:

for how much time do I have to run the stress test?

I used intle burn test for 5 times and then the stress test from asus realbench for 24 hours.

[Romano]

6 minutes ago, RuLeZ said:

it says almost 1.4V on AIDA 64, thats not that nice for long term on the Skylake, I would go back for 1.35v

it goes up to 1.392v

 

 

I guess that's not good, the guide i followed is a very basic one it leaves the core voltage in auto, I don't know how to put it in 1.35v can you help me out?

 

at 1.35v what speed can I get?

[RS2007GOD]

11 minutes ago, Romano said:

it goes up to 1.392v

 

 

I guess that's not good, the guide i followed is a very basic one it leaves the core voltage in auto, I don't know how to put it in 1.35v can you help me out?

 

at 1.35v what speed can I get?

Thats why they are sayings its a bad guide probly. In the bios there should be "cpu vid" or somthing similar set than to manual then set the voltage to 1.3 or 1.35. Is 1.25 by default from memory

[Romano]

1 minute ago, RS2007GOD said:

Thats why they are sayings its a bad guide probly. In the bios there should be "cpu vid" or somthing similar set than to manual then set the voltage to 1.3 or 1.35. Is 1.25 by default from memory

ok but then at what speed should I put the core ? It can't be 46 if its a 1.35 right?

[Neftex]

auto voltage is sketchy and even manual isnt that great imo, adaptive is way better (unless your board has botched bios which was the case for asus motherboards, so some googling might be needed)

 

if you dont stress test enough, your games can start crashing with no obvious reason and really just unexpectable behavior of your pc

AIDA isnt good enough stress test in my opinion, you should also run prime95 and x264 tests

 

[RS2007GOD]

Just now, Romano said:

ok but then at what speed should I put the core ? It can't be 46 if its a 1.35 right?

Its basicly trial and error. Set it at say 1,35 @4.6 run stress test for 30 mins if all good what you can do is drop the voltage further to say 1.34 and repeat until you find a point of instability. Theb set voltage to the last good one say 1.34 passed but 1.33 doesnt then use 1.34. In theory this isnt neccery as 1.35 is safe if it passes if it fail add slighty more or lower freq to 4,5ghz

[Romano]

Just now, Neftex said:

auto voltage is sketchy and even manual isnt that great imo, adaptive is way better (unless your board has botched bios which was the case for asus motherboards, so some googling might be needed)

 

if you dont stress test enough, your games can start crashing with no obvious reason and really just unexpectable behavior of your pc

AIDA isnt good enough stress test in my opinion, you should also run prime95 and x264 tests

 

some people will have the *facepalm* maybe when I say this but: This PC is not for gaming, I don't have a GPU installed, and there's not even 1 game installed, is a workstation, I mainly use Photoshop everyday, saying this Do I need the overclock? or should take that back to default speed

[Romano]

7 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

Thats why they are sayings its a bad guide probly. In the bios there should be "cpu vid" or somthing similar set than to manual then set the voltage to 1.3 or 1.35. Is 1.25 by default from memory

I stopped the aida stress test and is showing me this now: 

[RS2007GOD]

2 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

Its basicly trial and error. Set it at say 1,35 @4.6 run stress test for 30 mins if all good what you can do is drop the voltage further to say 1.34 and repeat until you find a point of instability. Theb set voltage to the last good one say 1.34 passed but 1.33 doesnt then use 1.34. In theory this isnt neccery as 1.35 is safe if it passes if it fail add slighty more or lower freq to 4,5ghz

Also a longer stress test is needed after the tweaking

[RS2007GOD]

2 minutes ago, Romano said:

I stopped the aida stress test and is showing me this now: 

Is that after you changed the volts to 1,35?

[Romano]

Just now, RS2007GOD said:

Is that after you changed the volts to 1,35?

nope, I have not touched anything else yet, I just stopped the stress test then the Core voltage sat there at 1.424

[RS2007GOD]

Did you change the muliplier? Looks like you only running a 9x muliplier now that should be 46 for 4.6ghz

[RS2007GOD]

3 minutes ago, Romano said:

nope, I have not touched anything else yet, I just stopped the stress test then the Core voltage sat there at 1.424

Ok you should go try set to manual and 1,35 v. If its idling the multiplier is ment to clock down so thats no issue.

[Romano]

6 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

Is that after you changed the volts to 1,35?

nope, I have not touched anything else yet, I just stopped the stress test then the Core voltage sat there at 1.424

 

ok I'm gonna try to leave the core at 46 and change the voltage manually to 1.35v then report back

[Neftex]

The multiplier changes with C states (simply cpu load) to save power. Thats also why manual voltage isnt great, because no matter how fast/slow your cpu runs, it still gets the same voltage. So use adaptive voltage instead (again, if the motherboard has fixed bios).

 

Theres quite comprehensive guide on skylake overclocking on other forum, if youre interested:

Spoiler

http://www.overclock.net/t/1570313/skylake-overclocking-guide-with-statistics

 

[Romano]

7 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

Ok you should go try set to manual and 1,35 v. If its idling the multiplier is ment to clock down so thats no issue.

Here's idle:

 

 

and here's with the stress test:

 

 

[RS2007GOD]

can just disable the c states also to run 4.6 constantly which shudnt be a problem

8 minutes ago, Romano said:

nope, I have not touched anything else yet, I just stopped the stress test then the Core voltage sat there at 1.424

 

ok I'm gonna try to leave the core at 46 and change the voltage manually to 1.35v then report back